Author: Neil Mather

I present: 651 tracks I’ve liked over the years, in no particular order.

https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/tracks.html

I wanted to get my old history of tracks that I’ve liked out of last.fm and Deezer for a while. I want to own that stuff.

This service is really nice to do that – export from a bunch of different music services into txt or csv.

https://www.tunemymusic.com/

Hmm, my h-feed seems to have stopped feeding. Latest posts aren’t showing up in Together or Monocle. The RSS feed still seems fine though.

In the meanwhile, I am very much a fan of Kicks’ page on hypertexting:

https://www.kickscondor.com/hypertexting/

I found a book from 1997 on my brother’s bookshelf in the house where we grew up, called Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology.

The first section is called Hypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson?

It looks pretty amazing. Beautifully, it has loads of pencil annotations from my brother.

I would love to read it. But I’ll be honest with myself, I haven’t started and finished a non-fiction book for a long time. I’m genuinely better in hypertext.

I uninstalled Tusky. It’s a great libre app for Mastodon. But after a morning spent losing about an hour (or more!) of time scrolling through the timelines, before even getting out of bed, I figured it’s something I don’t need on my phone. Keep the firehose at arms length. If I want to for some reason just scroll through everything on Mastodon, I’ll go to a website and login.

(Counterpoint: I did find some really interesting things while surfing the timelines…)

‘Contact trade unions that represent the people that work for these companies, urge them to follow in the footsteps of the Scottish Rolls Royce workers that defied Pinochet, and sabotage the manufacturing and selling of weapons to the fascist Turkish state’

https://greenanticapitalist.org/2019/10/11/riseup4rojava-call-to-defend-democracy/